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tortoise-shell, and tripang, which arc forwarded by the Labuan traders to 
Singapore. 
There are three sago mauufactoriea in the island, where the raw ma- 
terial rerei^ed from the coast k converted into sago-flour, which is ex- 
ported chiefly to the Sitigaftere nmrket. 
The Government is adtniui^tercd hy a Governorj niider the Colonial 
Office^ who also acts us Consiil-Genenil for Borneo under the Foreign 
Office. It is in every sense one of the smallest of the independent 
Governments nnder the British Crown, 
The chief sources nf Hcveuue are the farming of licenses to seE 
tobacco, spirits, opinm In retui), and to erect fishing-stakes. The valne of 
imports and exports in 1882 amounted to §1,2'5 1,000. The census of 
April, 1881, gave a population of 5,995 souls, 
Bjii^NEt OB Borneo PnoPiER. 
Bnlnei is a M5ila}' principality on the North coast, probably the 
most ancient of all now' existing in the islaiid- being indeed that fponi 
which it has durived it-^ modern European name, it is situated about 
1 I miles from the nionfh of the river I amhang, which k navigable 
for vesseln of con«iiflerable size. Thin State is i>oujjded to tlie East 
and West by its British neighbours, Sabah and Sariiwak, to the Sonth 
it extends into the Dyak country from 100 to ISO milerS inland, with but 
little authority beyond the coast. The inliabitantn are niastly Mahome- 
daiis. governed by a SuUan, who is uomiiially Liljsohitt!. The Sultan of 
Borneo had, until recent year*!, a sovereignty uvor the entire north- 
eastern coast from Sarawak to beyond Marudu Bay, Pa par, !Slangedara, 
Paitan, and Tiruu, in the North-East, are mostly Sulu settlemeuta. The 
Sulus at one time behi au extensive tract of country around Cape Unsaug, 
living under the rule of the Sultau of Suln, 
Themost populous and the only imjiortaut town iu Borneo Proper is 
the native city of Brunei. Sir Jamks Brookk called the towu " a Venice 
of hovels.'* It was taken by the British in ISiG, but was restored almost 
immediatelyje upon the cession of Labuan. The population of Brftnei was 
then stated to be 4O3OOO., and that of the wlmle kingdom waa put at 
225j000j but both of these figures must now be considerably reduced. 
The population of this part of Borneo is more ^Malayan than of other 
places on this coast. 
